RSOC Satellite Station Operational
By: Kent Petty, KL5T
9/16/2021
Well, it has been a bit of time coming, but the club’s satellite station is back on the air! It’s operable on 2-meter / 70 cm birds at this time. Maybe 2.4 GHz in the future?
Kevin Opalka, KL1V has been working on getting the station operational for a while. He installed the coax and the new pre-amp weatherproof box on the tower, and we were finally able to install a new N-connector on the LMR-600 for the UHF antenna yesterday.
Over the course of the last 2 days, TJ Sheffield (KL7TS), Kevin, and Kent Petty (KL5T) wrestled with SatPC32 to get the Yaesu az-el control and Icom IC-9700 CAT control working. It all came together this afternoon. With a fresh set of Keplerian elements were tracking satellites in real-time.
We still need to apply power to the preamplifiers; however, it is likely we’ll have enough gain from the boomer yagis to work a number of satellites.
More to follow.
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